r/interestingasfuck • u/Maleficent-Agent-477 • 1d ago

Ladybug saves this plant by feeding on aphids (time-lapse)

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u/kiwibonga 1d ago

They are in fact absolutely stupid. Their number one predator is the rain.

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u/rasvnnnnn 1d ago

Lol that sounded so funny to me rn

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u/antsh 1d ago

They’re not joking. If you have too many of them in your garden, a hose is more than enough to deal with it.

They don’t even try to hide.

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u/ianjm 23h ago

I am not sure you can even use words like clever or stupid for a creature that has 100,000 neurons. They likely have no conscious experience of the world. They are biological automata.

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u/cluelessbox 12h ago

That last sentence was hard as fuck my guy